[MCN] Quick rant: Comparing coronavirus mortality to climate mortality

[Lance Olsen]

Coronavirus mortality could exceed 100s of thousands. Climate mortality could reach 1000s of millions.

Coronavirus sources of mortality are NOW. Ditto for climate mortality. 

But while coronavirus mortality will likely subside over time, climate mortality will very likely increase over time.

Reducing risk of coronavirus requires changes in how we live our daily lives, right down to household and individual level. Reducing risk of climate mortality requires changes in how we live our daily lives, right down to household and individual level.

Financial/economic consequences of coronavirus give a preview of disruption as climate mortality starts taking lives of today’s young and yet to be born.

End rant

Lance 
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The poorest half of the world population is responsible for “only around 10% of total global emissions attributed to individual consumption.”

<<https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/mb-extreme-carbon-inequality-021215-en.pdf <https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/mb-extreme-carbon-inequality-021215-en.pdf>>> 

That leaves the rest of us responsible for about 90% of consumption-driven emissions. 

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"The big challenge is still to deliver emissions reductions at the pace and scale needed, especially in a world where economies are driven by consumption.”

Sonja van Renssen.The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies. Nature Climate Change  MAY 2018
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“… the serious meaning in a concept lies in the difference it will make to someone if it is true.”

William James (1842 –1910)
Pragmatism. Meridian Books, 1955

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